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Be Driven By What You Want

Setting goals is important in life as the right goals can provide motivation and encouragement. They can help you pick yourself up from the floor whenever something goes wrong, they provide a strong feeling of purpose and meaning to your life, and they help keep you focused. But only when we set the “right” kind … Continue reading »

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Do What You Do Do Well (aka: Grandad’s Philosophy)

My February started in a sad way with the passing of my grandfather. Throughout my life he has always been there not only as my grandfather but also acting as a father figure, a role model, and a great mate. I loved him dearly and I will miss him greatly but I am not one … Continue reading »

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3 Tips On Building Positive Relationships

Recently I attended a negotiation training course and I was pleasantly surprised with it. Initially I felt that I was already well-versed in negotiation through a mixture of previous experience, good emotional intelligence, and my “gut instinct” for reading people, and thus I did not expect to gain too much from the training course. I … Continue reading »

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Never Apologise For Being Yourself

If you are living true to yourself and your inner drivers (and not purposefully trying to hurt others) then you never need to apologise for being yourself. If you are chasing your dream, doing what comes naturally, and being yourself at all times then others just need to accept you for you. If they cannot … Continue reading »

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Don’t Just Think Big; Do Big

Think big. If you’re anything like me (and you are reading my website so I think that’s a fair assumption) then you’ve probably heard those two words plenty of times before. Hell, you’ve probably even had several people tell you that if you want to chase your dreams, achieve great success, and be able to … Continue reading »

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Leadership Tip: Learn to Know What You Don’t Know

You don’t know everything. It’s as simple as that and more importantly everyone else around you knows that you don’t know everything. This very thought should be liberating. It allows you to be wrong sometimes, it allows you to make mistakes, and it allows you be honest and upfront when you don’t know something. At … Continue reading »

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Why Your Opinion of Yourself is What Matters Most

Everyone has an opinion, and quite often people enjoy sharing (or forcing) their opinions with others. However, opinions are tainted because they only exist in each person’s own frame of reference. That is, each person forms their own opinion based on their own experiences and their own observations of the world. What is “right” for … Continue reading »

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How Daniel Grant Newton Followed His Dream and Wrote a Novel

Daniel Grant Newton is a kind, funny, inquisitive, and creative man and he has an impressive story. Not only did he recently quit his job to travel around the world but he also fulfilled his life-long ambition to write (and self publish) a novel. But it gets better than that. He published his first novel, … Continue reading »

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Brutal Honesty

I considered starting this off by saying that honesty plays a very important role in living a happy, positive and successful life but that just doesn’t justify the importance of honesty. Honesty is the cornerstone of all positive relationships and the number one aspect that defines our lives and the happiness and success that we … Continue reading »

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Maintaining Motivation Through Progress Plateaus

Nothing in our life occurs at a linear rate. We do not progress, or experience change of any kind, at a constant speed. Life ebbs and flows; change, improvement , and progress within our life can occur like a burst of lightning, like a sleepy snail, or anywhere in between. This applies to all facets … Continue reading »

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